Dear friends and colleagues!

This is the second Call for papers for ConsILR-2024

We invite you to submit a paper for the 19th edition of

the International Conference on Linguistic Resources and Tools

for Natural Language Processing – ConsILR-2024,

which will take place

between 14th to 16th of November 2024,

at the “1 December 1918” University, in Alba Iulia – Romania and online.

We expect papers presenting original and unpublished research, descriptions of accomplished or in-progress work in all areas of natural language processing, digital humanities, creation of resources and instruments to process language in both textual and spoken form. We call for contributions that range from theoretical, empirical and applied linguistics to computational models of language, research describing morphological, syntactic, semantic and discourse structures, pragmatic usage, multi-word expressions, the formation and evolution of languages, technologies to decipher and interpret old variants of languages, etc. The studies can be related to any language, but we encourage research evidencing specific aspects of the Romanian language or of any of its dialects and idioms. Case studies, demos of applications and review papers are also most welcome.

The conference is addressed to computer scientists and linguists, from PhD students to senior researchers, working on all areas of language modelling and processing, including lexicographers and creators of any forms of digital resources. We expect all range of approaches, from theoretical to symbolic, statistical and neural. Contributions may also describe new linguistic resources, such as speech and text corpora, bi- and multi-modal corpora, dictionaries in electronic form, treebanks, language models, pre-trained deep learning models transferable to other areas, vectorial models, collections of annotated documents, etc.

The organisers of the event are: University “1 December 1918” of Alba Iulia, University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” of Iași with the Faculty of Computer Science, Romanian Academy with its research institutes in Iași (Computer Science and Romanian Philology “A.Philippide”) and Bucharest (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence ”Mihai Drăgănescu”), the Romanian Association of Computational Linguistics, and the Academy of Technical Sciences of Romania.

Authors are encouraged to also submit, in addition to the papers per se, open-source linguistic resources, such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos and sound files.

Further information can be found on the conference web site: https://conferences.info.uaic.ro/consilr. Please remark the updated Important Dates:

• September 30, 2024 – abstracts submission (max 300 words);
• October 7, 2024 – paper submission;
• October 21, 2024 – authors’ notification;
• October 31, 2024 – final form submission;
• November 14 - 16, 2024 – ConsILR Conference;

On behalf of the conference organisers,

Dan Cristea, Dan Tufiș and Adriana Baciu